Europe’s Warm Feelings For Robots

After two hundred years of uneasy coexistence, the relationship between Man and Machine in Europe now appears to be going very well, according to a new poll of the region’s humans by Eurobarometer, Europe’s official polling agency.

The Eurobarometer poll shows that a surprising 70% of Europeans have a “fairly positive” or “very positive” view of robots. This is great news for human-robot relations. It means Europeans have come a long way since the Luddites waged war against the weaving robots (i.e. automated looms) that were introduced in England at the dawn of the industrial revolution. Progress has come despite the popularity of The Terminator movies.